Eve stole the knowledge; Christ gave the life:
Knowledge and life are the perquisites of soul, the privilege of Man:
Mercy stepped between, and stayed the double theft;
God gave; and giving, bought; and buying, asketh love:
And in such asking rendereth bliss, to all that hear and answer,
For love with life is heaven; and life unloving, hell.
Creature of God, His will is for thy weal, eternally progressing;
Fear not to trust a Maker's love, nor a Saviour's ransom:
He drank for all,—for thee, and me,—the poison of our deeds;
We shall not die, but live,—and, of His grace, we love.